Color

#3a9dbb

#3a9dbb
hex#3a9dbb
rgbrgb(58, 157, 187)
hslhsl(194, 53%, 48%)
oklchoklch(0.651 0.1 221.8)
Closest name: Blue Ocean (#009dc4)Relative luminance 0.286

Colors that go with #3a9dbb

Charcoal, Amber and Blue lead the list. Each partner is a real named colour with the reason it works — a wheel relationship, a neutral that carries it, or a pairing lifted from a palette or brand system that actually shipped — and every pair opens in the palette tool.

Real palettes that use #3a9dbb

Tints & shades

Every swatch is its own page — click any to analyze it.

Harmonies

Complementary

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#bb583a

#3abb99 · #3a5cbb

#bb3a9d · #9dbb3a

Split-complementary

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#bb3a5c · #bb993a

#993abb · #bb583a · #5cbb3a

Contrast

#3a9dbb as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.12:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #2f8098 as the text (4.5:1)
  • AAA: use #235f71 as the text (7.13:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #2b2b2b (4.53:1)
Aaon black
6.72:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #3ca4c3 as the text (7.29:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #3a9dbb as the background.

Brands using this color

No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.

Fonts for this mood

#3a9dbb reads as cool, modern. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #3a9dbb
live endpoint

Point any MCP client at the shared colors endpoint and your agent gets the same engine as this page — direct_palette, edit_direction, check_palette, check_contrast — read-only, no key. Every direction it proposes comes with a /colors/d/… link: open it, lock what you like, paste the link back, and the agent edits rather than re-rolls.

endpointhttps://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
claude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt

analyze #3a9dbb and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/3a9dbb-9cb6c4-df4e72-1f242d-e9f1ef?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md